Improvement sn pen-holders



G G. RAY. PENHOLDER.

No. 34,983. Patented Apr. 15 1862.

UNITED STATES PATENT Y OFFicE.

GEORGE G. RAY, or sosron, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT 5N PEN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,983, dated April 15, 1862.

.a top view of the metallic guard, and Fig. 4.

a front end View thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in animproved penholder as made with a rubber pen-supporter, a non-elastic handle, and a metallic or inelastic guard applied between the two' in manner and for .the purpose as hereinafter specified.

in carrying out my invention I construct the handle A of wood or any other suitable material and of any desired form. The lower 7 portion of such handle I chamfer off or reduce in size, so as to form a round tenon of about two inches in length for the reception of an india-rubber tube or pen-supporter B. This tube I make tapering in form externally from its center toward each of its ends, as seen in the drawings, and I give to such rubber tube a suificient thickness to form a soft elastic'cushion to the fingers, whereby the benunibing 0r paralyzing eifect produced by the continued use of a pen applied to a rigid holder is almost, if not entirely, counteracted.

Experience has demonstrated that although the rubber ferrule serves .to confine a pen to the handle, still a serious difiiculty exists in cellen-t advantage.

removing the pen from the holder after it may become unfit for use. This is owing to the flowage of the ink up between the rubber and the upper pad of the pen, causing a chemical 'or other action to take place, whereby the pen is made to firmly adhere to the rubber. To remedy this evil, I dispose between the chamfered part. of the pen-handle and the rubber pen-supporter a' metallic guard 0, whereby the penis prevented from coming in contact with the rubber. This guard or shield, as represented in the drawings, is of a sectoral form in transverse Section, and should be of such length and width as to completely in-v sulate the shank of the pen from the rubber. I have found by practice that by combining the guard with the handle and the rubber ferrule, as described, the above-mentioned difficulty is almost, if not completely, obviated.

A pen-holder when constructed in my improved manner I have found to operate toeX- I do not claim confining a pen to an-inelastic holder or. handle by means of an elastic ferrule or rubber tube applied to the, lower part of such holder, as I am aware that such is not'new; but \Vhat I claim is- My improved pen-holder as made with; a metallic or non-elastic guard G, arrangedbetween the handleA and the elastic or rubber pen-supporter B, the whole being constructed andapplied together as and for the purpose set forth.

' GEO. G RAY. Witnesses:

L.'L. FER'VER, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

